Manifolding device for addressing envelops.



G. W. HAZEL. MANIPOLDING DEVICE FOR ADDRESSING ENVELOPS.

APPLIUATION FILED MAY 15, 1911.

Patented July 29, 1913.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE W. HAZEL, OF CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR 'IO AMERICAN ADDRESS- ABAK COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE.

MANIFOLDING DEVICE FOR ADDRESSING ENVELOZES.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. HAZEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Camden, in the county of Camden and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Manifolding Devices for Addressing Envelops, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in manifolding devices for addressing envelops which permit the simultaneous addressing of a letter and the envelop to inclose the same, the object of the invention being to provide improvements of this character which may be manufactured and sold at an extremely low price, and Which will hold an envelop in position back of a carbon strip, and in alinement with the upper portion of a letter head, whereby when the letter is addressed, the carbon sheet will transfer the name and address to the envelop.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, as will be more fully hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure -1, is a plan view broken away, illustrating my improvements. Fig. 2, 1s a view 1n transverse section through the carbonized strip and other parts shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3, is a view in section at right angles to Fig. 2. Fig. 1, is a view similar to Fig. 3 but illustrating a modification.

My improvements comprise a sheet 1 of paper or other flexible material provided at one end with a series of parallel lines 2, and on this sheet 1, at a point adjacent the lines 2, an envelop pocket 3 is formed. This pocket 3 comprises a sheet of very thin paper preferably tissue paper, having a carbonized strip or strip of carbon paper 4 formed or glued thereon, and extending transversely of sheet 3 about midway the length thereof. This strip 3, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, is glued at its upper edge 5, and at its inner end 6, so that the envelop 7 is inserted in the pocket formed by this sheet 3 from the lower end of sheet 1.

In the modification shown in Fig. 1, the structure is the same, except that sheet 3 is also glued at its lower edge as shown at 8, so that the envelop must be inserted into the end of the pocket.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 15, 1911.

Patented July 29, 1913.

Serial No. 627,343.

In operation, a sheet of paper is first laid upon sheet 1, so that the carbon strip 4 is properly positioned relative to the letter head, so that the address on the letter will come over the carbon strip. hen in this position, sheet 1 will be cut off in accordance with the registration of the upper end of the letter with the lines 2. In other words, these lines 2 register with the edge of the letter head, and show where sheet 1 should be cut, so that for further use, the letter sheet and sheet 1 may be alined, as is ordinarily done by bringing the upper edges of the two together.

Instead of cutting the sheet, it may be folded on the line desired, and act as a backing for the letter sheet to facilitate its move ment on the roll or platen of a typewriter.

In the drawing, numeral 9 represents a letter sheet, which is placed in position, and as this view shows the several sheets broken away, it will be seen that the carbon or carbon strip 1 is located in position, so that it will transfer the name and address typewritten on the letter to the envelop. Therefore, in operation, the envelop is first placed in the pocket formed by strip 3, and when the letter sheet is in front of sheet 1, and both are placed in the typewriter, the name and address will be simultaneously imprinted on the letter and on the envelop. This pocket may be formed in various Ways other than those illustrated, and I therefore do not limit myself to the precise details set forth, but consider myself at liberty to make such changes and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: I

1. A manifolding device for addressing envelops, comprising a sheet of imperforate flexible material, an envelop receiving pocket secured to the sheet and having transferring material on its inner face, said pocket so located with relation to the sheet as to hold an envelop in position to be addressed simultaneously with the writing of the address on the letter, substantially as described.

2. A manifolding device for addressing envelops, comprising a sheet of imperforate flexible material, an envelop receiving pocket secured to the sheet and having transferring material on its inner face, said pocket so located with relation to the sheet as to hold an envelop in position to be addressed simultaneously with the writing of the address on the letter, and said sheet having a plurality of lines along one edge with which the letter sheet is adapted to register to properly conform to the position of the envelop, substantially as described.

3. A manifolding device for addressing envelops, comprising a sheet of imperforate flexible material, an envelop receiving pocket on the face of said sheet located in proper relationship to the end of the sheet, whereby when an envelop is positioned in the pocket, it will lie in rear of that portion of the letter sheet to receive the address, and a strip of transferring material on the inner face of said pocket, substantially as described.

4c. A manifolding device for addressing envelops, comprising a sheet of imperforate flexible material, an envelop receiving pocket on the face of said sheet located in proper relationship to the end of the sheet, whereby when an envelop is positioned in the pocket, it will lie in rear of that portion of the letter sheet to receive the address, a strip of transferring material on the inner face of said pocket, said pocket comprising a rectangular sheet secured at two of its edges only to the first-mentioned sheet, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

S. W. FOSTER, R. H. KRENKnL.

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Washington, I). G. 

